Plant-protector.



PATENTED JAN. 13,l 1903.

` J. AR.,4 EASTBRLING. PLANT' PROTECTOR. APPLIUATION FILED JAN. 25, 1902.

.H0 MODEL.

UNITED STATES PATENT EETCE.

JAMES R. EASTRLING, OF BARNWELL, SOUTH CAROLINA.

PLANT-PROTECTOR.

SPEGILFIGATION forming part of 'Letters Patent No. l718,109, dated January 13, 1903. Application led January 25,1902. Serial No. 91,243. (No model.)

same that -it will be cheap, efficient, easily' transported, and may be setup with the minimum of trouble and labor.

In the drawings forming a part of this specilication, and in which like symbols of reference represent corresponding parts in the several views, Figure l is a view of the frame of the device. Fig. 2 is a similar view of the frame bent and set upon the ground, and Fig. 3 is a view ofthe complete device.

The frame of my device is composed of a series of wires or the like l of springy metal joined at 2 by a disk having perforations, or it may be soldered, so that the arms l radiate from the same.

3 is a band of rubber or elastic material to hold the sack 4 in proper position when in use, the said bag or sack being adapted to inclose the arms or wires l and be held by the same from the plant or vegetable to be protected.

Of course I may use any number of Wires or arms as desired, as also any material for the bag or covering. I shall ordinarily use canvas or the like; but I shall be guided in the covering by the nature of the plant or vegetable to be protected.

In packing and transporting my device the same is laid fiat, as in Fig. l, with the 4Wires extended, and it is operated as follows: I first bend the wires to the position shown in Fig. 2. The ends of the wires are then struck into the ground, the covering is placed over the saine, and the baud of elastic placed over the bag down at the ends of the wiresnear the ground.

Having now fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. A plant-protector, composed of arms oapable of being bent, said arms supported by and passing through a common center piece, and adapted to be driven into the ground.

2. In a plant-protector, a frame composed of arms capable of being bent, said arms passing through and supported by a common center piece, a covering for the frame, and means for holdingthe covering on the frame.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

J AMES R. EASTERLING.

j Witnesses:

J. A. SAUL, `JOHN A. SWEENEY. 

